SLEEP QUALITY AS CORRELATES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS IN OYO TOWN.

Abstract

Problems with psychological wellbeing among senior secondary school adolescent students could have dire consequences for their academic performance and overall health. This study, therefore investigated sleep quality as correlates of psychological well-being among senior secondary school adolescent students in Oyo town. The study employed a descriptive research design of correlational type. The population of the study comprised of all the six thousand, five hundred and fifty-five (6,555) senior secondary school adolescent students in SSS 2 in public senior secondary schools in Oyo town. A sample of eight hundred and two (802) male and female senior secondary school adolescent students in Oyo town were selected. Data were collected using a research instrument- Questionnaire on Adolescents Psychological Well-being (QAPW) with three subscales (?=.755). Frequency counts, percentages, mean, and standard deviation, were utilized to answer the research questions. The Pearson’s product moment correlation and t-test analyses were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The results revealed that: there is a high level of psychological well-being among senior secondary school students in Oyo town (x?=2.97); there is a high level of sleep quality among senior secondary school students in Oyo town (x?=2.78), senior secondary school adolescents showed gender difference in psychological well-being. It is recommended among others that, periodic interventions by counselling psychologists be implemented for senior secondary school adolescent students in Oyo in order to enhance their psychological well-being.